'Flying Pheasant' - Original Oil Painting by Ben HoskynsOil on canvas, 35cm x 25cm. About the artist Ben Hoskyns has been a full time professional artist since 1988, specialising in oils of British Wildlife. He has developed more as a landscape artist in recent years and his studies of birds and animals are often part of a progression towards his larger pieces. The smaller landscapes, themselves, are usually part of that same development so that there may be several different versions of a particular view